Back pain is something I help many of my clients with both in training and in treatment. Success with treatment and training will depend on each client's condition. I've had some cases resolve after one treatment, and others took half a year of training core endurance and coaching movement that spares the spine. In some cases, the problem comes and goes - it depends on how effectively the pain trigger(s) can be avoided. If, for example, someone has back pain that is triggered by prolonged sitting in a slouched posture and consistent training helps alleviate it, that person will have…
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Addressing Back Pain
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Hip Impingement: Ways to address it.
This video shows five exercises to help prevent and address anterior hip impingement (pinching at the front of the hip(s)). There may be other factors that contribute to pain in your specific case that I haven't brought up in this video. For an accurate diagnosis of your condition, always seek an in depth clinical assessment from an experienced professional that is well versed in physical assessment.
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General Rules for Improving Body Composition
There are many guidelines one can follow when it comes to getting lean and staying lean. Some of the most important factors are your training program and your eating habits. The video above outlines some of the rules I follow and encourage my clients to follow when it comes to attaining and maintaining a healthy body composition. Here's the link to the Precision Nutrition Calculator: https://www.precisionnutrition.com/nutrition-calculator
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Chronic Knee Pain - Starting with the feet
Possible contributing factors to chronic knee pain can be one's movement habits; the way they walk, squat, lunge. This video is meant to bring awareness to movement habits and provide simple tools (for example, side lunges and ankle/foot exercises) to help address possible contributing factors to chronic knee pain. This video is not meant to address all causes of knee pain. It is also not meant to be a self-diagnostic tool. Your best option in determining your cause of pain or dysfunction is to see a therapist that is well versed in physical assessment. If you are interested in a more…
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Annual Cold Dip Tradition
Since I became a trainer, I’ve been interested in the variety of ways I can make myself and the people that I help, stronger - mentally, physically, and spiritually. My aim is to make health attainable by simple means; by using tools that we all have access to. 5 years ago marked the beginning of a cold dip tradition that I’ve been doing on Christmas Day ever since. I’ll get to that origin story shortly. I’ll start by explaining why I train to be more resilient to either cold or heat. The simple reason is that after adapting to either cold…